Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post"

Nicholas Culpeper, Scientist

"I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper"

Philip Schaff, Theologian

"I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away"

Henry Fonda, Actor

"We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly, there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals"

Abdolkarim Soroush, Philosopher

"I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist"

Jim Coleman, Actor

"Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out"

Michael Scott, Writer

"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it"

Edward Irving, Clergyman

"If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing"

Gene Robinson, Clergyman

"And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around"

Larry Norman, Musician

"After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth"

John Biddle, Clergyman

"I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again, an unemployed actor but a man"

Henry Fonda, Actor

"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church"

Frank McCourt, Author

"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"I also work with the spirituality of people"

Della Reese, Musician

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back"

Amitabh Bachchan, Actor

"Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day"

Luke Ford, Writer

"The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"I hold communications with saints and angels, even with Satan himself"

Elizabeth Barton, Celebrity

"In order to be discipled by others, a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result"

Ed Townsend, Musician

"Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

"Yes, I'm a great believer in angels"

Anna Lee, Actress

"Faith is the heroism of the intellect"

Charles Henry Parkhurst, Clergyman

"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

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